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pith:2024:R52IIMCFNFL4MTNIEE7HRC2DXK

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Understanding Factual Recall in Transformers via Associative Memories

Alberto Bietti, Eshaan Nichani, Jason D. Lee

arxiv:2412.06538 v1 · 2024-12-09 · cs.LG · cs.CL · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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arxiv: 2412.06538 · arxiv_version: 2412.06538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.06538 · pith_short_12: R52IIMCFNFL4 · pith_short_16: R52IIMCFNFL4MTNI · pith_short_8: R52IIMCF

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